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. 2015 Sep;2(3):215-9.
doi: 10.1093/rb/rbv013. Epub 2015 Aug 7.

Neuropeptide Y receptors: a promising target for cancer imaging and therapy

Juan Li  1 , Yuchen Tian  1 , Aiguo Wu  1
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Neuropeptide Y receptors: a promising target for cancer imaging and therapy

Juan Li et al. Regen Biomater. 2015 Sep.

Abstract

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) was first identified from porcine brain in 1982, and plays its biological functions in humans through NPY receptors (Y1, Y2, Y4 and Y5). NPY receptors are known to mediate various physiological functions and involve in a majority of human diseases, such as obesity, hypertension, epilepsy and metabolic disorders. Recently, NPY receptors have been found to be overexpressed in many cancers, so they emerged as promising target in cancer diagnosis and therapy. This review focuses on the latest research about NPY and NPY receptors, and summarizes the current knowledge on NPY receptors expression in cancers, selective ligands for NPY receptors and their application in cancer imaging and therapy.

Keywords: cancers; imaging; neuropeptide Y receptors; therapy.

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